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{{Example
| toki pona la nimi <mark>wan</mark> li jo e kon suli.<ref>{{cite lipu tenpo |nanpa=jaki |title={{tok|musi}} Og {{tok|en nimi pi mute lili}} |url=https://liputenpo.org/toki/nanpa-jaki/musi-og-en-nimi-pi-mute-lili/ |author={{tok|jan Nalu}}}}</ref>
| In Toki Pona, <mark>a single</mark> word
| toki-pona la nimi <mark>wan </mark> li jo e kon suli
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Notably, if
As a [[transitive verb]], {{tp|wan}} can be used to mean the act of (actively) uniting or combining multiple things into a bigger whole. A similar intransitive meaning can be expressed with the phrase {{tp|kama wan}}.
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| kon li kama <mark>wan</mark> la ona li kama kon ante.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://utala.pona.la/toki-en-lipu/lipu-suli/jan-mun.html |title=jan mun |language=tok |author=[[jan Kekan San]] |date=2023-08-15 |website=[[utala musi pi ma pona]] |access-date=2024-05-17}}</ref>
| When the gas <mark>fuses</mark> (lit. becomes <mark>one</mark>) it becomes another gas.
| kon li
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